RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Commentary on `The medicalization of life' and `Society's expectations of health'
JF Journal of Medical Ethics
JO J Med Ethics
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 90
OP 91
DO 10.1136/jme.1.2.90
VO 1
IS 2
A1 Gordon Horobin
YR 1975
UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/1/2/90.abstract
AB The main theses of the papers by Dr Illich and Dr Leach are compared. Both writers, says Mr Horobin, a sociologist by training and profession, discuss the uses and abuses of medical expertise in the modern world. In his view, the problems so created must be solved for the good of those they treat; doctors must rediscover the old skills of treating the whole patient.